After a year at the helm of U of T’s storied Victoria University, Rhonda McEwen says her prime mandate is to ensure students feel like they belong.
, and despite finding herself in the protest crosshairs, McEwen describes being “honoured to be the president in the chair that gets to be part of the announcement.”
She is the first Black woman to lead a Canadian university and the first president in Victoria’s history to come from the sciences rather than the humanities. She has her PhD, but spent 15 years in the business world. world. Under her tenure, all staff have returned with only 20 per cent in some form of flexible arrangement.recovery from COVID-era losses, how to generate more revenue from the university’s lucrative real estate footprint , and updating its aging buildings.
That has been most surprising for the 52-year-old who was scooped up by Victoria after most recently serving as vice-principal academic and dean at U of T Mississauga, home to 16,000 students. On the couches outside her office, Sharese Taylor, a 22-year-old international student, can regularly be found between classes. Taylor, who also hails from Trinidad and Tobago, first met McEwen last September during a welcome barbecue.
McEwen was born to parents who in the late 1970s temporarily moved the family from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States to pursue degrees in higher education. From ages seven to 11, McEwen found herself in Menomonie, Wis., a small university town.
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